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The result was no consensus. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:36, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DeKalb County United[edit]

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Non-fully professional team which does not meet WP:NFOOTY. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:58, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DeKalb County United should not be deleted from Wikipedia as we are government sanctioned 501(c)4 non-profit. We compete in a USSF sanctioned league. We have regional tv news coverage, newspaper coverage, local magazines, and additionally, several other teams at our level exist on Wikipedia that do fully meet the requirements outlined by Wikipedia. We are able to fully show our validation with reliable sources, provide replays of matches, highlights, stats, attendance records, profits and losses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Bavarian_SC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Stockade_FC
https://www.wifr.com/content/sports/Stillman-Valley-grad-helps-build-DeKalb-County-United-481995951.html
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=5043967&ein=821900787&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=Sycamore&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=194&names=&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=50&postDateTo=&state=IL
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2018/01/30/soccer-new-semi-professional-team-hopes-to-spark-excitement-around-dekalb-county/ap9aa1e/
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2018/07/23/dekalb-county-uniteds-inaugural-season-ends-with-win/alx8kir/
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2018/04/06/soccer-dekalb-county-united-board-overwhelmed-by-community-support/dbeyukv/
https://mycujoo.tv/search?q=dekalb%20county%20united — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cnewquist1228 (talk • contribs) — Cnewquist1228 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Comment - WP:NFOOTY is the notability standard for players, not teams, so the nomination is inherently flawed. There is no requirement for a team to be fully professional to have an article -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:10, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - ChrisTheDude is absolutely right. I meant to put WP:ORGDEPTH. My apologies.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:42, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - Substantial coverage seems to exist for this club. Bashum104 (talk) 00:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - As the user who is responsible for the first major change the this article that set off this course, I am more than willing to make any necessary changes/edits that may be required to keep this article up. With that said I am new to the Wikipedia editing game, and therefore do not know most of the lingo. If u/ChrisTheDude or u/onel5969 can tell me exactly what needs to be done for that, I would be glad to make any necessary changes that are required for the maintaining of this page. Bholda
Comment a few things on this. First, I think OP is referring to the guideline WP:FOOTYN, which this article would fail, as it neither plays on a national level nor has played in the U.S. Open Cup. Surprisingly though, there is a large amount of coverage for a team at this level, so it might squeak by on WP:GNG. And finally, it should be noted that there is a possible WP:COI conflict here with User:Cnewquist1228. Jay eyem (talk) 00:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't think this does pass WP:GNG (the proper thing to look at, as some of the teams in this league pass and some don't: FOOTYN is irrelevant here.) The only articles I can see on the club are the daily-chronicle.com articles, one of those is very short, the other is routine coverage, the other qualifies. The WIFR.com article is more on a player than the club. While I personally think routine coverage can get teams over the WP:GNG line in the absence of any other coverage, I also think the routine coverage needs to be consistent and not just a one-off send a reporter to the final game of the season. I also can't find any other articles on the team. SportingFlyer T·C 17:57, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - probably just scrapes by on GNG. Giant Snowman 11:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
merge https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20180704/how-suburban-semipro-soccer-clubs-are-helping-to-grow-the-game There is this article in a broader audience paper however the depth is limited as one of the few examples of teams among handful of teams of suburban semi pros. I can support merge and redirect into a semi pro football related article or existing page relating to DeKalb County, IL but I don't think this should have a standalone article It lacks the notability to be of interest to the entire English language readers. US IRS 501c statuses has nothing to do with notability. Graywalls (talk) 08:17, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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